About

About

Dressed up as Rambo, circa 1987

Here is a picture of small frank.

FRANK TUPTA (TUP like UP) grew up in a haunted house in Cleveland. His favorite holiday is Halloween. He still dresses up every year. He currently lives in Peninsula, Ohio (a haunted town) surrounded by the Cuyahoga Valley National Park with his wife, children's book author + illustrator Lindsay Ward, their two boys, and Sally, a rambunctious pit-bull\lab mix who keeps things interesting by chasing coyotes in their backyard.

If you'd like to know more about small Frank and the kind of shenanigans he used to get into, read BROBARIANS by his wife, Lindsay. The character Otto is based on him.

Most days you can find Frank writing, walking Sally with his family, driving around on his tractor, or assisting his wife with www.critterlit.com, a website offering free critiques and advice for up-and-coming authors and illustrators.

HERE IS A Frank Timeline.

1946 Highlights Magazine is released.

1958 Danny and the Dinosaur is published.

1970The Sweet Smell of Christmas is published.

1980 The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash is published.

1984 Born on October 13th. Begin love for all things Halloween.

1984-1988 Danny and the Dinosaur, The Sweet Smell of Christmas, and The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash are read until bindings come a part at the seams.

1985 Slept in haunted house.

1987 Developed fear of basements.

1988Beetlejuice is created and is subsequently watched until the VHS breaks.

1989 Conquered Hidden Pictures in Highlights Magazines at a doctor's offices all over Northeast Ohio.

1990 Eternal sadness...the 80’s and all of its music and cinema comes to an end.

1997 Wrote and illustrated first picture book, Writings "R" Us. An instant classic.